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European Bireme: EU Nodes in biodiversity reporting mechanisms

Published on June 26, 2018

Summary

This project aims to describe reporting processes and data flows in five European countries, investigate how GBIF could facilitate reporting and recommend changes to GBIF tools/procedures, if needed. Best practices will be identified, summarized and spread to all European countries.

The project will be articulated around two phases:

Assess nationally how EU reporting works, based on a common methodology. These assessments will be conducted in Belgium, France, Ireland, Norway and Portugal.

Compare national assessments, extract best practices and give recommendations to GBIF Secretariat and European Nodes.

The expected results are:

Short-term results

Improvement of the national EU reporting by opening up the underlying datasets.

Dissemination of the produced documentation, especially towards non GBIF audience (EEA and national reporting stakeholders).

Long-term impact

Adoption of best practices by a larger number of EU countries.

Improvements of GBIF tools and procedures according to recommendations.

Objectives

To detail national reporting processes and data flows in Portugal;

To explore how changes to GBIF tools and procedures could streamline and improve biodiversity reporting across Portugal;

To identify and summarize best practices and to share recommendations with the GBIF Secretariat and other European Nodes;

To improve the understanding of stakeholder needs and procedures for data and decision-making.

News and Activities
(List of actions developed during the project)

The second BIREME Workshop was held in Paris, from the 3rd to the 4th of May (2018). In this event, Node partners got together to discuss their countries’ activities development on the project and to share their first results. In that regard, the Portuguese coordinator Rui Figueira, presented the Portuguese case for the elaboration of Habitats and Bird Directives report and the full presentation can be accessed through this link.

Publication of the report: BIREME, the Portuguese case. This report documents the process of elaboration of the national Habitat (art. 17) and Bird (art. 12) Directives report, on their last reporting cycle (2007-2012).